The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-13

Miss Lydia A. Wright, whom he SUISSE
quently married They now have two
daughters and one son, and the son is
named Cecil Montgomery.
In General.
CHOLERA is spreading in Sicily.
SMALL-Pox is spreading in Cuba.
Mr.. BLAINE is in Scotland and will soon
visit Ireland.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, had an $4,000 confagra-
ton Monday.
TWELVE large Havana firms have gone
into bankruptcy.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake in South
Carolina Sunday.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake were felt in
New Hampshire Monday.
JOHN VAN GoRpAN of Middletown, N. Y,
died from the sting of bee.
A LARGE steam saw-mil at Gouverneur,
n. V. is burned. Loss $4,000.
THE formal announcement of DR.. Nc
Glynn's accommodation is published.
DOZEN murders have been reported
from the Indian Territory within week.
THE spring wheat crop is about three
fourths of an average. Corn promises finely.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND left Washington
Monday for weeks visit in central New
York.
MORE than one hundred decapitations
were the result of two recent upriSingS in
China.
LACK of food and intense heat are proving
serious obstacles in the path of Explorer
Stanley.
The fall in mercury from Sunday morning
to Sunday night, in many places, was
twenty degrees
THE town of Nogy Karolyi, in Hungary,
was destroyed by hurricane and water
spout last week.
LoCUsTs have laid waste the country
around Perham, Mimi, and the farmers are
suffering greatly.
GERMAN and Russian papers protest
against Prince Ferdinand's election to the
Bulgarian throne.
THE Baptist church and several other
buildings were destroyed by cyclone in
Carlisle, Arkansas.
THREE hundred fifty-fve new money
order offices were established July by the
postmaster-general.
CoRNELL's four-oar won the mile-and-a-
| half straight-away race against Bowdoin at
Lake Quinsigamond.
THE United States men-of-war of the
Asatic and Pacific squadrons have been
ordered to Honolulu.
BY conhagration in st. Refine, Quebec,
about thirty houses were burned, and the
! loss is put at 100000.
was drowned with her young brother in her
| efforts to save his life.
BY the overlooking of the river Wen Chow,
! in China, thousands of people are believed
! to have lost their lives.
The Carlsbad Sprudetur announces that
Mr.. Parnell is staying there, and that he is
suffering from diabetes.
Two persons were killed and about thirty
seriously injured by an explosion of cello
mite in Arlington, n. j.
1t is said that four Grand Army posts will
not parade to-day at Clinton, \. Y, if Presi-
dent Cleveland is present.
STEPS were taken yesterday in Boston
toward the erection of a memorial hall in
honor of Wendell Phillips.
! TERRIFIC thunder-storms ragged along the
| Hudson river and in sections OF New En-
gland last week Wednesday,
BEN. HALLIDAY, of pony express and over
land stage fame, died at Portland, Oregon,
Friday, aged sixty-eight years.
THE shortage in the Fidelity National
Bank of Cincinnati will reach nearly $780,
OO0 according to official report.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were drowned in
Jamaica Bay, near New York, Sunday even
ing by the capsizing of yacht.
THE Queen reviewed 10000 soldiers at
Aldershot on Saturday. Her majesty was
received with great enthusiasm.
Mr.. BLAINE delivered an address at the
| laying of the cornerstone of free library
building in Edinburgh Saturday.
r. CRoNAN of Boston, while attempting to
swim in the Niagara river, was drawn into
the whirlpool rapids and drowned.
The death-rate for New York is larger
than usual for the season, the infant NOR
tally being in excessive proportion.
THE Cdthoic Herdld, New York paper
which espOused the cause of DR.. McGlynn,
has been obliged to suspend publication.
EDIsoN's newest invention is the estab
lishment of communication at sea between
vessels not more than seven miles apart.
F. LEAvITT, a Boston man, slid down or
the snow in a White Mountain ravine strik
ing the rocks, and is perhaps fatally hurt.
THE New York, New Haven x Hartford
Railroad Company is about to build a tow
on its line after the pattern of Pullman, Ill
MORMON missionaries have begun preach
ing their doctrine along the Savannah river
but have been ordered by the regulators tC
leave.
PETER BARLOW, who took part in tn
American revolution under General Wash
ington, died recently in Demerara, age
100 years.
MIR. GLADSTONE, in the house of commons
moved the rejection of the Irish crimes bill
and made strong speech in advocacy q
his motion.
THE engineers and fremen of the Brook
lyn elevated railroad are on strike, tn
, strike being ordered and sustained by tn
Brotherhood.
= AT Quincy, ILL.,, Professor Thomas S
: Baldwin jumped from balloon at an alt
l tude of mile and landed safely by mean
of a parachute.
Y CHARLES MERRIAM, of the old Webste
n Dictionary publishing firm of &. c. Me-
. riam, died in Springfield, Mass, the 9tl
n aged eighty-one.
e A FARMHOUSE at Ardnohoe, Buteshr,
Scotland, was destroyed by fire the III
!; Three women and four men-servants wer
burned to death.
A vILLAINoUs combination at Chicago
q called the coal-ring, has begun so early
y advance prices and $40 or more ton wi
l. be demanded by winter.
q A CITIZENS meeting in st. Louis has a
n pointed committee to invite the Presidei
m and Mrs. Cleveland TO visit that city on I'll
i week beginning October
e IT is said that a wealthy editor of BostC
lie has made provision in his will for fund
e. establish a professorship of practical jou
s. nalism at Harvard College.
lc CANADIAN cholera is more prevalent
70 Montreal this season than for many yea
past. Children are dying from cholera i
in fantum at an alarming rate.
i, REPORTS have been received that teri
70 BILE famine prevails at Skakefjord, lcelan
e. and that many peasants and thousands
IS cattle have died from want of food.
W AN emigration company" has been II